RE: mild drug SPOILER Re: other stoned detectives? Re: finished IV…

[Carvill John]

Two more very minor thoughts on this:

1. Again without claiming careful study, just going by what I can remember, it increasingly seems to me that, if I were challenged to pinpoint instances of Doc exhibiting symptoms which could only be put down to dope smoking, then I'd find it quite hard. Stuff like memory lapses, paranoia, and not knowing if you've been thinking or talking out loud, could all be ascribed to other drugs or phenomena, and in some cases more likely should be.  Remember Pirate Prentice wondering if he'd whispered something or said it aloud at the start of GR?

2. Comparisons with Marlowe/Chandler are many and will doubtless be explored in depth, something I look forward to. Someone mentioned that, although Marlowe would be as likely to be caught crying over a dame as smoking a joint, he does enjoy a whiskey or three. I think the phrase used was 'five sheets to the wind'. But in actual fact, again going from (older) memory, although Marlowe always seemed to be accessing that 'bottle of pretty good rye', he never seemed to be debilitated by drink, so far as I can recall. (Cue deluge of posts quoting passages of Marlovian drunkenness...)


Oh! Oh! Something else: I'd never heard of PCP being marketed as 'synthetic THC'. What a case for teh trades descriptions legislators! A bit like that Japanese synthetic blood in HBO's 'True Blood', 'metallic and vile'.

The strongest thing I ever had, I think, was a type of LSD marketed as 'Purple OMs' in about 1989. Now that was enough to bring on visions of Looney Tunes, I can tell you...



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